''i gotta check something''
''what is it?''
''i don't know, sonny gave it to me before the race, i figured it was one of those key things i've heard people talk about, but seeing as how no one has to lock their doors these days, i've never really seen a lock work, let alone what a key looks like?''
''so how do you start your car?''
''me? wishful thinking and cool good looks, what about you?''
''you didn't think these things were just for show didja?''

18:13 holy maloy tamoly, i never knew joel was a time traveler, but there he his on the left, looking like he just caught his parents doing the two to tango. hey joel, why the long face ''i don't know, my watch just came that way''

w is for walking, trees cant walk and stones cant walk but.....wait what? oh thats right, we have to remind the kids of this so they dont go round trying to get trees and stones to walk......maybe thats why they throw stones at windows ''we heard you cant walk, here, let me help you into the store, window seems like as good a place as any for a way in'' launch....weeeeeeee SmAsH!!! ''there ya go little fella, now im off to fell a tree and see if it needs the bathroom....poor stones n trees not being able to walk, i tellz ya, what a woild''

if i had kids, i'd probably be the kind of dad that would by his bairn a dummy/pacifier in the shape of a face hugger. i can just see them in forbidden planet right now, its a bout time they had a section for the parent. lol.

Y is the symbol for the heavy metals that the fish eat? I'm confused. Sure, fish have been contaminated with heavy metals like mercury, but Y is the symbol for... (goes to look it up)... yttrium. Which is a metallic element, but not a heavy metal. Google tells me that they've actually done studies using yttrium as an inert dietary marker in fish. (It seems it's a component in some indigestible plant fiber, so they can use it to help study how carp eat.) Am I missing something here, or is Joel just making up a symbol because there's a fish on the screen and mercury in fish was in the news at the time?

Joel's riffs during the alphabet short are some of the funniest he ever did - it's not just what he said, but the disturbingly bright an sugary tone of voice he used.
Then, during the "Pants Up" number, it looks like he's barely keeping himself from cracking up completely - in stark contrast to his "sleepy guy" shtick from the monkey trial skit in the last episode.

With due respect to Contino the Titular role should have gone to Dean Martin. Deano-O with old Jerr ( in a triple threat performance plays The Death , Man, Death guy as a crying clown, the coke rimmed glasses gym guy remains unchanged and as Janet Jerry steals the film. Dean-O goes on toe sweep the Oscars . Martin & Lewis never break up. The time line is restored and Caesar Romero is the current POTUS with Morty Gunty head of The F.B.I.

Dr. Feelgood
What a great ep! Our hero ( ? ) Mr. Highpants is such a complete dolt. He makes one huge mistake after another. Still he nabs the bad guys, gets the girl, and gets his license back. Pathetic. Lucky for us, the Boys and bots (and the ladies behind the scenes) are in good form, and a good time was had by all.

do people in the midwest call karaoke ka-ro-kee and not care-ee-o-kee? They call it karokee all the time and at first I thought they were making some obscure joke but it seems like a dialect thing. Like when they call roof a "ruff".

This is the first episode of MST3k I ever saw. I remember because the only part I remembered was Frank feeding the baby and the baby spitting the food out. I'll be god damned. Not only is that my first memory of this show. It is easily one of my earliest memories. Holy crap!

In all the MST3K episodes I've seen, which is nigh-all of them, there is no character I can think of more consistently annoying than the female lead in this film. But maybe I'm just prejudiced against people who act like arrogant jerks and drive like psychopaths. :P

Gah, this short is just so bad. The film is so bad, the rhymes are so bad and it just has no educational merit, especially not for young children (who I'm guessing it was geared towards.) It also contains plenty of good old fashioned nightmare fuels (as the boys would say.)

I'm pretty sure when they made this short, they just looked through whatever stock footage they had and stuck letters and narration over it. "T is for Trying Hard" over a video of bears? I don't think so.

What a terrific episode! Everything about it, from the stuuuupid stupid annoying stupid short to the silly movie (the acting wasn't so bad in it though!), and the host segments have me in *fits*!
So hike up your pants HA! and watch this now! YA!!

A rare old bird is the pelican. His beak holds more than his belican. He can take in his beak enough food for a week; I'm damned if I know how the helican! I've loved that limerick since I learned it as a kid, but Joel is mistaken, it's not by Ogden Nash but Dixon Lanier Merritt. So, now you know that. ... um and Daddy-O sucks.

Laugh if you will about his odd pants positioning; Daddy-O did nail down smoldering hot Jana! And lest not we forget, Urkel eventually scored Laura Lee Winslow, striking a blow for pants hikers everywhere!

44:45 There it is again! That totally sounded like Luigi's Mansion!
I wonder if they made up that tune, or if that's actually from a song...
Also, I wonder if there was some foreshadowing to Joel's eventual departure from the show here...what with him going crazy during some sketches.

Hike, Hike, HIKE! HIKE your pants up, Hike up your britches like ME! YEAH! Hike up your britches like me!!! HOLY Love of all things Good, I SWEAR this segment was GOLD! Some of the BEST moments in MST, imho, is the sketches that mirror or build upon scenes or characters. Truly gut bustin' good!!! And 4 this, I owe all involved in MST my debt of gratitude! May this laughter therapy known as MST3K Last FOREVER!